Chris Pratt Quotes

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.

I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

'Grey's Anatomy' has given me a lot of security, especially as my kids have grown older. Plus, for the last eight years, I didn't have to get on a plane and go to do a job out of town or in another part of the world.

I'm an office manager for Office Max. I have two daughters. I'm married. I have a normal job.

TV is a writer's medium.

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.

I am a father, and sometimes I want to stay close to home. By varying the workplace, it gives me space to breathe. I enjoy theatre because it reminds me I'm mortal, and it's terrifying when it goes wrong but the most thrilling experience when it flies.

I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in a million years sit down and watch. The more interesting storytelling is happening on television by a long shot.

Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.

My mother stayed at home and raised me and my closest sister, and that meant that the American Dream and what he was doing on television as a character and behind the scenes as a producer was producing for us at home, so it is your life.

You can have a wife - you can have a child or children - and be a rock n' roller.

Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.